Use this page to add your "useful links" and annotations... be sure to add your name or initials next to your links so they can be identified. http://penzu.com/
This website allows students to create a journal. It can either be private or shared with others. It is free of cost and has an unlimited amount of space for the writer to use. (Melanie Surico)
http://www.j2e.com/ On-line word processor, desktop publisher, web page creator and form creator, designed for education. Use it for all your word processing needs, for example, homework and worksheets, as well as web publishing. (Melanie Surico) http://www.mixedink.comThis site is a collaborative writing platform that allows groups of any size to create and weave their best ideas together. This site is free and users can also share the work with others once done. Excellent for group projects. (Melanie Surico) http://tuxpaint.org/This wonderful website allows students to create artwork online and then share with others. Excellent for art classes, as well as any projects that require illustrations. (Melanie Surico) www.webnode.comThis FREE site allows students to create their own websites. (Melanie Surico)
http://www.edutopia.org/
One of the best sites on the Web for information and ideas about cutting-edge teaching and learning. There's an emphasis on technology, but the resources here go far beyond the tools. You'll find stories about innovative middle schools, videos that show ideas in action, interviews with experts, and whole sets of information around themes like **Project-Based Learning** and **Technology Integration**.
http://www.brainpop.com Founded in 1999, BrainPOP creates animated, curriculum-based content that supports educators and engages students. Ideal for both group and one-on-one settings, BrainPOP is used in numerous ways, from introducing a new lesson or topic to illustrating complex subject matter to reviewing before a test. Content is aligned to state standards and easily searchable with an online state standards tool. All products are fully compatible with PCs, Macs, projectors, and interactive whiteboards. No downloading, installation, or special hardware is required. http://www.educationworld.com/
Education World's goal is to make it easy for educators to integrate the Internet into the classroom. Educaton World is a search engine for educational Web sites only, a place where educators can find information without searching the entire Internet; original content, including lesson plans, practical information for educators, information on how to integrate technology in the classroom, and articles written by education experts; site reviews; daily features and columns; teacher and principal profiles; Wire Side Chats with the important names in education; employment listings.
http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm
Discovery Education provides engaging digital resources to schools and homes with the goal of making educators more effective, increasing student achievement, and connecting classrooms and families to a world of learning.
**http://webtools4u2use.wikispaces.com/****
WS --- The purpose of this website is to provide a place for K-12 school library media specialists to learn a little more about web tools that can be used to improve and enhance school library media programs and services, to see examples of how they can be used, and to share success stories and creative ideas about how to use and integrate them. Hundreds of free and inexpensive web tools are available for school library media specialists to use that can make us more productive, valued, and, perhaps, more competitive.
**http://www.online-stopwatch.com/**
Everybody needs a stopwatch at some point -- and there's never one around! Well... Now there is! Online Stopwatch! A Simple, Fast Flash Online Stopwatch and Online Countdown timer always available when you need it.
http://www.wordle.net/
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
http://starfall.com
Teachers around the world use Starfall.com and Starfall high-quality educational products as an inexpensive way to make the classroom more fun and inspire a love of reading and writing. Parents use Starfall to prepare their children for school, and to support them once they are there. Starfall is an educational alternative to other entertainment choices for children.
Primarily designed for first grade, Starfall is also useful for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and second grade. Starfall is perfect for home schooling. Be sure to visit The Starfall Store for low-cost writing journals and books that parallel this website. http://dictionary.reference.com/help/faq/language/ This site presents hundreds if updated FAQs or frequently asked questions about words. They range in topics from: Differences (e.g. the difference between a road and a street), Etymology/Origins ( e.g. what is the origin of Pizza), Grammar/Usage/Style (e.g. What are the correct uses of could, should, and would?), Spelling (e.g., What is phonetic spelling?), Trivia (e.g. What is a word?)
http://www.180techtips.com/
A website that offers tips for using commonly used computer programs, and other technology based ideas.
http://www.4teachers.org/
works to help you integrate technology into your classroom by offering online tools and resources. This site helps teachers locate and create ready-to-use Web lessons, quizzes, rubrics and classroom calendars. There are also tools for student use. Discover valuable professional development resources addressing issues such as equity, ELL, technology planning, and at-risk or special-needs students.
http://classtools.net/ allows you to create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash! Host them on your own blog, website or intranet! No signup, no passwords, no charge!
www.earth.google.com - Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean. You can explore rich geographical content, save your toured places, and share with others.
http://translate.google.com View web pages in other languages, or translate any english word into 42 different languages.
http://www.apples4theteacher.com/ This is a primary website, which offers interactive educational activities and online games for students. It inlcudes interactive learning games, quizzes, and worksheet generator tools by subject. http://www.abcteach.com/ Over two million people visit the free site each month to find outstanding material for preschool through eighth grade. Currently, there are over five thousand documents (from simple worksheets to full ten-page units) on the free site, with new materials being added every month. A monthly newsletter is available to anyone who wants to stay on top of the newest materials added to the free site.
http://www.toolsforeducators.com/ This website offers worksheets, worksheet creators, printables wizard and on-line teaching materials makers with images. Use these printout generators, game makers, and programs for teachers to make and print teaching resources with picturesor text. They are simple, but beautiful, versatile and powerful.
http://storynory.com/Storynory is an online treasure trove of audio stories. Here you will find a mixture of new stories, fairy tales, and specially adapted myths and histories. We also have a sprinkling of verse. We have published an audio story every week since November 2005. Listening to audio stories helps develop attention and imagination. It stimulates a love of words and books. But above all, it's superb form of entertainment.
http://sqooltube.com/ This website offers free educational videos for K - 8 students. Subjects covered include: math, music, reading and communication arts, safety, science, Spanish, and social studies.
http://penzu.com/
This website allows students to create a journal. It can either be private or shared with others. It is free of cost and has an unlimited amount of space for the writer to use. (Melanie Surico)
http://www.j2e.com/
On-line word processor, desktop publisher, web page creator and form creator, designed for education. Use it for all your word processing needs, for example, homework and worksheets, as well as web publishing. (Melanie Surico)
http://www.mixedink.comThis site is a collaborative writing platform that allows groups of any size to create and weave their best ideas together. This site is free and users can also share the work with others once done. Excellent for group projects. (Melanie Surico)
http://tuxpaint.org/This wonderful website allows students to create artwork online and then share with others. Excellent for art classes, as well as any projects that require illustrations. (Melanie Surico)
www.webnode.comThis FREE site allows students to create their own websites. (Melanie Surico)
Top 25 Web sites for Teaching and Learning - American Association of School Librarians
Time Space World
Jeopardy labs
WorldWide Telescope
http://www.edutopia.org/
One of the best sites on the Web for information and ideas about cutting-edge teaching and learning. There's an emphasis on technology, but the resources here go far beyond the tools. You'll find stories about innovative middle schools, videos that show ideas in action, interviews with experts, and whole sets of information around themes like **Project-Based Learning** and **Technology Integration**.
http://www.brainpop.com
Founded in 1999, BrainPOP creates animated, curriculum-based content that supports educators and engages students. Ideal for both group and one-on-one settings, BrainPOP is used in numerous ways, from introducing a new lesson or topic to illustrating complex subject matter to reviewing before a test. Content is aligned to state standards and easily searchable with an online state standards tool. All products are fully compatible with PCs, Macs, projectors, and interactive whiteboards. No downloading, installation, or special hardware is required.
http://www.educationworld.com/
Education World's goal is to make it easy for educators to integrate the Internet into the classroom. Educaton World is a search engine for educational Web sites only, a place where educators can find information without searching the entire Internet; original content, including lesson plans, practical information for educators, information on how to integrate technology in the classroom, and articles written by education experts; site reviews; daily features and columns; teacher and principal profiles; Wire Side Chats with the important names in education; employment listings.
http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm
Discovery Education provides engaging digital resources to schools and homes with the goal of making educators more effective, increasing student achievement, and connecting classrooms and families to a world of learning.
**http://webtools4u2use.wikispaces.com/****
WS --- The purpose of this website is to provide a place for K-12 school library media specialists to learn a little more about web tools that can be used to improve and enhance school library media programs and services, to see examples of how they can be used, and to share success stories and creative ideas about how to use and integrate them. Hundreds of free and inexpensive web tools are available for school library media specialists to use that can make us more productive, valued, and, perhaps, more competitive.
**http://www.online-stopwatch.com/**
Everybody needs a stopwatch at some point -- and there's never one around! Well... Now there is! Online Stopwatch! A Simple, Fast Flash Online Stopwatch and Online Countdown timer always available when you need it.
http://www.wordle.net/
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
http://starfall.com
Teachers around the world use Starfall.com and Starfall high-quality educational products as an inexpensive way to make the classroom more fun and inspire a love of reading and writing. Parents use Starfall to prepare their children for school, and to support them once they are there. Starfall is an educational alternative to other entertainment choices for children.
Primarily designed for first grade, Starfall is also useful for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and second grade. Starfall is perfect for home schooling. Be sure to visit The Starfall Store for low-cost writing journals and books that parallel this website.
http://dictionary.reference.com/help/faq/language/
This site presents hundreds if updated FAQs or frequently asked questions about words. They range in topics from: Differences (e.g. the difference between a road and a street), Etymology/Origins ( e.g. what is the origin of Pizza), Grammar/Usage/Style (e.g. What are the correct uses of could, should, and would?), Spelling (e.g., What is phonetic spelling?), Trivia (e.g. What is a word?)
http://www.180techtips.com/
A website that offers tips for using commonly used computer programs, and other technology based ideas.
http://www.yourchildlearns.com/online-interactive-maps.htm
Access to online interactive maps for geography lessons or references for educational or recreational activities.
www.teachertube.com
A website that allows educators to share videos and presentations through uploading.
Everything You Need to Teach Reading
http://www.4teachers.org/
works to help you integrate technology into your classroom by offering online tools and resources. This site helps teachers locate and create ready-to-use Web lessons, quizzes, rubrics and classroom calendars. There are also tools for student use. Discover valuable professional development resources addressing issues such as equity, ELL, technology planning, and at-risk or special-needs students.
http://classtools.net/ allows you to create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash! Host them on your own blog, website or intranet! No signup, no passwords, no charge!
www.earth.google.com - Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean. You can explore rich geographical content, save your toured places, and share with others.
http://translate.google.com View web pages in other languages, or translate any english word into 42 different languages.
http://www.teachertube.com an online community for sharing instructional videos.
http://www.blogspot.comcreate your own blog for your classroom!!
Kerpoof
http://www.kerpoof.com/
ClassTools - a variety of flash games and templates that can be embedded in blogs, and websites
http://www.classtools.net/
http://www.wikispaces.com Create your own wiki!!
http://www.apples4theteacher.com/ This is a primary website, which offers interactive educational activities and online games for students. It inlcudes interactive learning games, quizzes, and worksheet generator tools by subject.
http://www.abcteach.com/ Over two million people visit the free site each month to find outstanding material for preschool through eighth grade. Currently, there are over five thousand documents (from simple worksheets to full ten-page units) on the free site, with new materials being added every month. A monthly newsletter is available to anyone who wants to stay on top of the newest materials added to the free site.
http://www.toolsforeducators.com/ This website offers worksheets, worksheet creators, printables wizard and on-line teaching materials makers with images. Use these printout generators, game makers, and programs for teachers to make and print teaching resources with picturesor text. They are simple, but beautiful, versatile and powerful.
http://storynory.com/Storynory is an online treasure trove of audio stories. Here you will find a mixture of new stories, fairy tales, and specially adapted myths and histories. We also have a sprinkling of verse. We have published an audio story every week since November 2005. Listening to audio stories helps develop attention and imagination. It stimulates a love of words and books. But above all, it's superb form of entertainment.
http://sqooltube.com/ This website offers free educational videos for K - 8 students. Subjects covered include: math, music, reading and communication arts, safety, science, Spanish, and social studies.
http://www.dotolearn.com/ This website displays many ways for teaching students with special needs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainstreaming_in_education This website describes the advantages of mainstreaming in special education.
http://forums.eslcafe.com/teacher/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=10724 This website is the Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL students and Teachers from around the world.
http://www.ualberta.ca/~jpdasddc/incl/difinst.htm This websites is very helpful for teacher to differentiate their lessons.
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/Classroom/Technology/Integrating_Technology/Integrating_Technology.html If you want to integrate technology in your classroom this is the website to go.